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Linux 2.2.20 is Out
piranha(jpl) writes: "I went to download 2.2.x from kernel.org and noticed 2.2.20 is out. I believe this is supposed to fix the security vulnerability found in 2.2.19. Surprised I didn't see it on the main Slashdot page."
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2.2.19 is no number to end a kernel series with. It's so ugly and odd. Doesn't 2.2.20 seem like such a better number? It's even and it's got alliteration. Thank goodness for this bug, or we would have never had a proper end to the 2.2.X series.
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
This is a Good Thing. It gets tiring after a while to keep on telling people "Well, the 2.4 kernels are in the middle of a VM flamewar so you should probably stay away from them until they settle down... but the latest 2.2 kernel has some icky security holes, so what you need to do is get 2.2.19 and then add these two security patches... hey, where did you go?"
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Goddamnit. Im moving under my bed. Maybe the DCMA and RIAA wont get to me there.
2.4 is greater than 2.2.20 according to my math, which means it's better and more recent
no, no, no...
Linux is a next-generation operating system. The whole thing was planned out by The Creator before even the first line of code was committed to disk. We are in fact on a count down to Linux version 1. That will be the perfect version that will signal the end times . You see, linux started with, IIRC version 5. Each time The Creator completes one stage of the plan, we decrement the version number by one. We are at 2.2 now so as you can see, it wont be long until the end times .
I'm kind of a newbie to Linux
Welcome aboard brother.
Why, I can remember my first experience with linux. I had a version 4.6.2 kernel running on a 386 with only 640K RAM. Ahh... those were the days!
because how cool would it have been if kernel 2.2.20 came out on 11.1.01?